Ya forgot krth and there all 80s weekend which they do every holiday weekend...memorial Day weekend July 4th labour day at least kroq and alt 98.7 mix it up a bit but not krth always the same all 80s for a holiday weekend. I liked it better when kroq did rock if the 90s weekend. That would be my choice of all of em. Yacht noty fave do not care for the music but props to them for doing something different
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Anyone listening to the yacht rock weekend on klos
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K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Every day is an 80's day for me, of course. Today we ran classic Casey Kasem American Top 40 specials.
This is true. Awesome dude for running Casey kasem. Fun to listen to. I love listening to the Casey kasem bloopers of his American top 40 show. It's very funny when he cusses. Thanks K.M..fir your contributions to this board I learn alot
Well everyone we survived yacht rock weekend and it is over. They concluded the yacht with Christopher cross sailing and after top of the hour id KLOS went right into beastie boyz sabotage and then the Alice's Attic show started.
I don't know about his so called on-air personality. That "Dead Dog Dedication" rant.......Well, let's just say that if I were a first time listener and heard that [Yeah, I know, it was a "leaked" tape.] I'd probably never tune in again. I have a feeling there were more then one of those meltdowns. Granted, probably a stressful, nationwide show to do and keep affiliates happy. I've worked with enough guys that sounded super friendly and fantastic on air and sounded like they had a great personality but once that mic turned off they were nasty, major-league A-Holes to everybody.
Shouldn't people be told the ingredients that go into a hot dog? I mean if people knew what they were eating when they ate a hot dog, they might not eat so many of them. (Oh yeah, the free market and all that!)
Bringing this back to radio, obviously not giving out factoids about the songs you're playing isn't going to kill you, making having those factoids less important than knowing what the ingredients in a hot dog are. Maybe I'm old-fashioned and stupid but I *really* do believe that radio, because of its accessibility by the masses, has a duty, regardless of what the market thinks, to provide factoids, not about songs, but about things that could allow its listeners to make good and just decisions, especially in emergency situations. With all due respect to you and many in the younger generations, radio's first goal, above being a profitable business, should be to inform the public about the world around them and what to do when emergencies arise.
Ok. I'll get off of my high horse now.
What the hell has radio come to in this country. When I was attending school in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, KRTH had about 7 or 8 different specialty weekends that it ran, one each weekend, and sometimes, it did even more. You had the super 60's weekend (with all songs from the Beatles' [1964-1969] era of the 1960s); the souvenir 70s weekend (featuring, you guessed it, songs that were hits between 1970 and 1979); the oldies but goodies weekend (featuring the firstdecade of rock and roll prior to The Beatles); the decades weekend (Fridays were given to the 1950s, Saturdays were given to the 1960s, and Sundays were given to the 1970s); the super set weekend (three or more songs in a row played by your favorite artists from all the decades KRTH covered) and more. And now, all KRTH can do for weekend specials is an all-80s weekend. No wonder radio is in trouble!
Ted, the only reason they were doing weekends featuring decades prior to the 1980s is that there was still a salable audience for that music.
This isn't about what the hell radio has come to---it's about time doing what time does.
The early 80s was 40-ish years ago.
Music from the middle 50s was less than 30 years old then. Teens from that era would be in their early-mid 40s.
The 60s was two decades back, the 70s the decade before.
If it were in sync with what it was doing in the early 80s, the oldest thing KRTH would be doing now would be the 90s. The equivalent of the 60s then is the '00s now and the equivalent of the 70s then would be the '10s now.
And then you cite everything that wasn't his on-air personality.
It's an outtake. If you were a listener, first time or otherwise, you'd never have heard it. If not for the internet, only radio geeks with dubs would have heard it.
What people listening to American Top 40 on September 14, 1985 was this:
None of which made air.
Well,given that time is doing what time does, then KRTH could have all 90s, 2000s, and 2010s weekends. The station could also have a new-style Decades weekend with the 80s on Friday, the 90s on Saturday, and the 2000s on Sunday. About the only weekends where there might be issues would be the superset ones because of the DMCA, but even here, the majority of the songs played from the late 1970s onward are long enough that most supersets would actually be limited to just three songs at a time anyway.
But you're right. The current generation doesn't want that. And really, the rant I had above it responding to @davideduardo is, from my perspective, the more concerning of the two.
I was wondering how they would handle the transition from yacht rock back to the regular format. Here's the midnight song list:
- 12:38 AM
hard to handle
the black crowes - 12:30 AM
machinehead
bush - 12:21 AM
kashmir
led zeppelin - 12:16 AM
rock'n me
steve miller band - 12:12 AM
holiday
green day - 12:07 AM
synchronicity ii
the police - 12:04 AM
sabotage
beastie boys - 11:57 AM
sailing
christopher cross - 11:49 AM
25 or 6 to 4
chicago
And KRTH doesn't need it. Let's remember that until the next book drops, they're #1 with a 7.4.
"We now return to your regularly scheduled programming of white guys with guitars."
...aimed at an audience that unironically calls classical and standards "music by old dead white guys."
Anyone who's done a LOT of V/O (maybe outside Bonneville Communications) could have a reel like that.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Ernie Anderson:
I once posted a rant from Orson Welles that was pretty epic.
So I am trying to understand this.
It is an obvoius put-down, but is the slur aimed at guitars? Doubtful, most people don't have an issue with guitars. Is it white guys then? Is being a white guy something to be ashamed of? Or is it only when they play guitars?